We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.

Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.